UPDATE: Hadush Kebatu, who was released in error from HMP Chelmsford, has been arrested. Kebatu was located by Met officers near Finsbury Park at around 8.30am thanks to information received from a member of the public.He will be returned to the custody of the Prison Service.

An asylum seeker who was accidentally released while serving a sentence for sexual offences could be deported from the UK as early as today. Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday - sparking a manhunt - with the Metropolitan Police arresting him in Finsbury Park on Sunday.

Hadush Kebatu, jailed in September for a year for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning, instead of an immigration detention centre.

The prison officers’ union has questioned why one employee was “unjustly” suspended after an asylum-seeker who sexually assaulted a teenage girl. And th

Met Police lead London hunt for Epping hotel sex assault convict freed in error - Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention cent

Kebatu, who arrived in the UK on a small boat eight days before the incidents in July, was convicted of making inappropriate comments to a 14-year-old girl before he tried to kiss her on July 7 – just eight days after he arrived in the country on a small boat.

Kebatu was set free weeks after being jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, Essex, while staying in a hotel.